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Tag: High Speed Rail

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Delusion: California’s ‘Golden Economy’

September 14, 2024   7:06 amSeptember 15, 2024   10:54 am
Gavin Newsom claimed in July that California simply has no peers, across the spectrum. The Globe reported on Newsom’s conceited email in which he listed the Orwellian “Ten Ways California Leads the Nation.” California may be leading the nation – off...
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SF Housing Finance Authority Drops $20 Billion Bond Effort

August 14, 2024   4:52 pmAugust 14, 2024   4:52 pm
The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA) today dropped its campaign to pass a $20 billion so-called affordable housing bond. Facing the almost certain loss at the polls, the BAHFA board met in closed session and unanimously decided that – on...
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SF Housing Finance Authority Bungles Boondoggle Bond: $12 Billion Dollar ‘Mathematical Error’

August 12, 2024   2:30 amAugust 12, 2024   2:31 am
Sometimes, government agencies and the concept of math are not the best of friends. The state’s high speed rail program budget to complete the entire project has ballooned to upwards of $180 billion dollars. It was supposed to cost $33...
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Orwellian: Gavin Newsom’s ’10 Ways California Leads the Nation’

July 19, 2024   2:45 amJuly 19, 2024   7:32 am
Gavin Newsom claims California simply has no peers, across the spectrum. Newsom claims in an email Thursday: California has a “Golden economy” despite having a record $45 to $73 billion budget deficit and more than $1.5 trillion in unfunded public...
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30 Miles of Tunnels Proposed for High Speed Rail: Can You Dig It?

June 29, 2024   2:00 pmJune 29, 2024   2:01 pm
The consistently accurate and forward looking board of the California High Speed Rail Authority has decided that it is a good idea to dig 30 miles of tunnels to connect Burbank to Palmdale. The purely political zig-zag to include Palmdale...
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Cities Climate Leadership Group: The Dementia is in the Details

April 22, 2024   2:45 amApril 22, 2024   11:23 am
First off, despite the headline, this article is not about Joe Biden. But is about something as nearly as terrifying as having a rattled and addled president leading the free world. It’s about the  C40  Cities Climate Leadership Group, a...
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California Press Releases, An April Fool’s Paradise

April 2, 2024   6:38 am
Each year on April 1st, also known as April Fools Day, I try to write a piece of satire to showcase some of the absurdities encountered in agricultural irrigation in California. I generally start the piece early in the year...
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